The Collection Fund (Wales) Regulations 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply only to Wales. Under Part VI of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the Act”) charging authorities are required to maintain collection funds into which must be paid receipts from community charges. From its collection fund a charging authority must meet precepts from other authorities and its own demand, calculated under section 95 of the Act, in respect of its estimated expenses.

These Regulations, which are made under Part VI of the Act, make provision about the discharge by charging authorities of their liabilities in respect of precepts and in respect of transfers under section 97 of the Act to meet their estimated expenses.

Regulation 3 makes provision for a charging authority to make certain payments and transfers from its collection fund in accordance with a schedule of instalments and for the circumstances in which certain liabilities of the authority are to be treated as discharged.

Regulations 4 and 5, together with Schedule 1, provide that a charging authority shall determine a schedule of instalments, and make provision as to the rules in accordance with which it is to do so. Regulation 6 provides for schedules of instalments to be amended. Regulations 7 and 8 make provision as to the payment of interest where amounts payable in accordance with a schedule of instalments are not paid. Regulations 9 to 12, together with Schedule 2, make provision as to certain transfers, as to the holding, investment and use of sums paid into a charging authority’s collection fund, and as to the payment into the fund of amounts representing interest on those sums.